ezienecker / grafana-sidecar-folder-sample

Installs the web dashboarding system Grafana with sidecar support. Additionally add dashboards from configmaps to specific folders in grafana.

Grafana Sidecar Sample

Installs the web dashboarding system Grafana with sidecar support. Additionally add dashboards from configmaps to specific folders in grafana.

Tested with Chart stable/grafana Version: 3.7.3, 6.4.2

Create the PersistentVolume

kubectl apply -f persistent-volumes/pv-pvc-grafana.yml

Installing the Chart

helm install --name grafana stable/grafana -f grafana-values.yaml

Create the ConfigMaps

kubectl apply -f configmaps/account-dashboard-cm.yaml

kubectl apply -f configmaps/team-1-dashboard-cm.yaml

If you now go to the Grafana instance, the dashboards should be visible inside the folders. (Maybe you need a port-forward)

kubectl port-forward <pod-name> 3000

Add another folder

To add more folders you have to add another dashboardProviders to the grafana-values Yaml.

dashboardProviders:
  dashboardproviders.yaml:
    apiVersion: 1
    providers:
    - name: 'new-team'
      orgId: 1
      folder: 'New-Team'
      type: file
      disableDeletion: true
      editable: false
      options:
        path: /tmp/dashboards/new-team

Additionally you have to make sure that the dashboards that are added with the ConfigMap have the following label and annotation set:

metadata:
  labels:
    grafana_dashboard: "1"
  annotations:
    k8s-sidecar-target-directory: "/tmp/dashboards/new-team"

In the annotation k8s-sidecar-target-directory, you specify the folder (the folder must already present in the dashboardProviders).